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Baptists and the American Civil War: May 29, 1863
A commentary in today’s Richmond Enquirer declares that the Confederacy, unlike “the Yankee nation,” manifests “the complete absence of religious intolerance.” Northerners, the writer argues, persecute Catholics. This persecution has been evidenced by Northern invaders on Southern soil: We have already seen that a Catholic Church in Florida was wrecked and ruined by regiments from Maine, which provoked a sanguinary fight between them and some Irish troops in the same command. More lately we learn, from … Read entire article »
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Baptists and the American Civil War: January 1, 1862
For white citizens, New Year’s Day in Augusta, Georgia is filled with hope for the coming months. Augusta, a large and important city in the state, is also the birthplace of the Southern Baptist Convention. The SBC had been founded in 1845 in the city’s First Baptist Church, at a south-wide convention called by leading Southern Baptists of the day. The delegates of that convention, comprised mostly of well-to-do slaveowners and thus representing only a small … Read entire article »
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Baptists and the American Civil War: December 29, 1861
As the year draws to a close, a total of eleven Baptist churches are active in the Confederate capital city of Richmond, Virginia, including three African churches. A number of the urban congregations have, by this time, settled into a weekly routine of Sunday AM, Sunday PM, and Wednesday PM services that will remain familiar to Baptists of the South for generations to come. The African congregations are an exception to this pattern: slaves work … Read entire article »
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- A Consuming Fire: The Fall of the Confederacy in the Mind of the White Christian South (Genovese)
- Baptized in Blood: The Religion of the Lost Cause (Wilson)
- Broken Churches, Broken Nations (Goen)
- Chaplain to the Confederacy: B. Manly
- Conditions of Antebellum Slavery
- Creation of Confederate Nationalism (Faust)
- God's Almost Chosen Peoples: A Religious History of the American Civil War (Rable)
- Religion and the ACW (Historiography)
- Religion and the American Civil War (Miller, Stout, Reagan)
- Religion in the CW: Northern Perspective (Moorhead)
- Southern Baptists and Blacks, 1845-1895
- The Civil War as Theological Crisis (Noll)
- When Slavery Was Called Freedom (Daly)
Archival Collections (Baptists and the American Civil War)
- American Baptist Historical Society Collection (Mercer University, Atlanta)
- Georgia Baptist History Depository (Mercer University Macon)
- Samford University Special Collections (Birmingham, Alabama)
- South Carolina Baptist Historical Collections (Furman University, Greenville)
- Southern Baptist Historical Library and Archives (Nashville, Tennessee)
- Virginia Baptist Historical Society (University of Richmond)